Prints

Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
Oil on canvas. H. 207,0 ; L. 265,0 cm.
Donation Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, 1906
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Benoît Touchard / Mathieu Rabeau

Rejected by the jury of the 1863 Salon, Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l'herbe under the title Le Bain at the Salon des Refusés (initiated the same year by Napoléon III) where it became the principal attraction, generating both laughter and scandal.